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Re: What *are* they smoking?

  • From: Wayne E. Bouchard
  • Date: Mon Sep 15 21:39:36 2003 
So then now instead of mail to misspelled domains, instead of
bouncing, now goes to /dev/null and you have no idea that your
critically important piece of information didn't get through?

Neat.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:17:43PM -0500, netmask wrote:
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Monday, September 15, 2003 7:34 pm
> > Subject: Re: What *are* they smoking?
> >
> > >
> > > No, it accepts if the from domain exists - but only if it *REALLY*
> > > exists.
> >
> > Anyone want to guess what happens to all those from addresses it captures?
> 
> No doubt.. It's unfortunate that they are running a daemon on port 25 on that
> box..  and that it actually lets you helo and mail from.. and not until you
> get to rcpt to  does it reject.. unless you use a domain its now got cached
> in which case it accepts the to: and closes at data. (So, if you rcpt twice,
> it'll accept it.. cuz like everyone else, its own dns server resolves
> everything)
> 
> [[email protected] netmask]$ telnet www.oisdufoisdufoisuf.com 25
> Trying 64.94.110.11...
> Connected to www.oisdufoisdufoisuf.com.
> 
> 220 snubby3-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready
> 
> helo ishouldntresolvebutthankstoyouido.com
> 250 OK
> 
> mail from: <[email protected]>
> 250 OK
> 
> rcpt to: <[email protected]>
> 550 User domain does not exist.
> 
> rcpt to: <[email protected]>
> 250 OK
> 
> data
> 221 snubby3-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission
> channel
> 

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Wayne Bouchard
[email protected]
Network Dude
http://www.typo.org/~web/

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